Why
get involved? Because it’s been 70 years. The survivors, who go out into the schools
every week at great traumatic cost to themselves, are in their 70s, 80s, and 90s.
How much longer can they bear witness? When they are gone, who will carry on?
Is it really necessary to retell the story of the six million and the
survivors? Yes, it is. "Each person had a name," survivor Joe Ingle
told me.
The importance of continuing to bear witness was brought home
to me again after a public screening of the film. A young Mexican man who attended
high school in the U.S. before dropping out took my hands and thanked me because
he had never heard about the Holocaust before seeing my film. “I never knew,”
he said teary-eyed. --Virginia Friedman |
